Whitewood is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.

The community was initially settled in the early 1900s by lumber companies that arrived to log the forests of the surrounding hills.

The settlement was named Whitewood, supposedly after the color of the lumber, shortly after the first lumber mill was established in 1905.

[3] In September 2008, Whitewood High School, built in 1940, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On July 12, 2022, the community was heavily damaged by a catastrophic flood.